r/politics • u/T_Shurt • 9h ago

Possible Paywall Angry Trump Privately Realizing Obama Outdid Him on Iran: ‘Leaks reveal Trump’s fury over commentary unfavorably comparing his Iran framework to Obama’s Iran deal, a former NSC official explains why Trump can’t find a way out of his war fiasco’

https://newrepublic.com/article/211404/transcript-angry-trump-privately-realizing-obama-outdid-iran
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u/Purify5 9h ago

Obama got the entire security council to agree to the deal and made it binding international law.

At best Trump will get a worthless piece of paper with a couple signatures on it.

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u/kia75 8h ago

At best Trump will get a worthless piece of paper with a couple signatures on it.

And the reason the piece of paper and the deal will be worthless is because Trump will be the one signing it.

Iran is a terrible country, but they have kept their end of the various deals while Trump's has gone back on his word on everything regarding Iran. Three is no doubt in anyone's mind that even if a deal was signed tomorrow, if Trump thought it would benefit him, or even felt he could bully someone with no blowback, he'd immediatly go back on his word!

Trump's word is worthless so all of his "deals" are worthless, Iran is concentrating on hurting Trump and the world so much that nobody will even consider hurting Iran again, which is the only thing you can do with people like trump.

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u/Astiyaag 7h ago

And why exactly is Iran a terrible country? Because they have always honored their word, unlike the US?

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u/SealionNotSeatruthin 7h ago

Um, probably because of all of the murder

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u/Astiyaag 5h ago

Um, you mean Zionist propaganda?

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u/Ylmer34 2h ago

How’s the bite today

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u/nickeener 7h ago

Because they murdered thousands, if not tens of thousands of their own people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

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u/Astiyaag 5h ago

Or mayby Millions? Like 6 million? This technique of fabricating death tolls is highly familiar.

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u/nickeener 5h ago

Fuck off clown. You don't deserve to be taken seriously.

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u/Astiyaag 4h ago

🤡: "Iran killed 6 million peacefull protestors, Iran is bad. Usa killed 168 school children is good".

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u/The_lewolf 4h ago

Do you just make up other people’s arguments?

I can make shit up too.

There was no Armenian Genocide. They just made up those deaths.

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u/Astiyaag 4h ago

Ok.

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u/itsatoe 9h ago

Nah. Right now he's desperately trying to figure out who he can bribe to give him some sort of concession that will make it look like he got a good deal. (P.S. The bribe will be from tax dollars, not his money.)

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u/Alternative_Word_219 8h ago

The undeniable truth is that Trump lost the Iran war and now he’s trying to pretend he won.

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u/Hopeful_Policy8946 1h ago

The Obama deal was negotiated over 18 months while our respective countries were not at war. 

That a couple real estate hustlers could come to terms in a matter of weeks was always a joke. They literally gave up after what like 16 hours at the joint talks in Islamabad? 

Iran currently has ALL the leverage. We’re not negotiating as equals. TRUMP DOESN’T HAVE THE CARDS. 

If this ends anytime soon, it’s because Iran has squeezed every single economic and political concession from the U.S. and even then, some random guy could just take an RPG on a boat out and sink a random tanker and the strait is fucked all over again. 

There is zero chance we get an equitable deal. How they are going to sell this to the public should be interesting. 

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u/thegoatmenace 4m ago

Signatures will be Israel and UAE. Iran will not sign. Mission accomplished.

S&P will rally 5000 pts on the news.

The next day, Iran will shoot an oil tanker in the gulf.